ALBANY, N.Y. (BP) – Responding to culture’s toughest questions about the faith was the focus of the first-ever apologetics conference presented by the Baptist Convention of New York (BCNY), April 24-25, in Albany. More than 250 attended.
I have received a copy of the letter from former ERLC president Russell Moore to our current SBC president J.D. Greear. Some of the matters referenced occurred prior to my coming here in this role. For those matters of which I was present, I do not have the same recollection…
A leaked letter from Russell Moore, the former head of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm, details what he says is a toxic culture of protecting sexual abusers in churches and allowing racial prejudice. But Mike Stone, a leading candidate running for SBC president, believes the letter's release is an attempt to sway the upcoming election.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The state of California has agreed not to impose greater coronavirus restrictions on church gatherings than it does on retail establishments in a pair of settlements that provide more than $2 million in fees to lawyers who challenged the rules as a violation of religious freedom.
Shuttle services available for messengers at annual meeting By Scott Barkley NASHVILLE (BP) – Messengers to the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting who chose to keep their hotel rooms at or near the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center have complimentary shuttle options June 13-16 for transportation to and from the Music City…
EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah – Barry Smith, bi-vocational pastor at Pioneer Community Church, is in his second attempt to plant a church southwest of Salt Lake City.
NASHVILLE (BP) – SBC President J.D. Greear led the second of three Wednesday sessions of focused prayer for the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting today (June 2) at 2 p.m. CDT.
Former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson is disputing allegations made by the seminary in the 2021 SBC Book of Reports that documents and other items belonging to the seminary were “improperly removed” from the campus after his firing in 2018.
DULUTH, Ga. (BP) – As we prepare to meet in Nashville for our annual convention, we do so with excitement that we are finally going to be together again physically, but our greater prayer is that we would be more united together spiritually than ever before. With that spirit, we…
On Sunday, First Baptist Church of North Tulsa’s current sanctuary throbbed with a high-decibel service as six congregations gathered to mark the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre and to honor the persistence of the Black church tradition in Greenwood.
Just two days after Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, accused former President Paige Patterson of theft, Patterson preached at First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, a Southern Baptist megachurch led by Robert Jeffress. Patterson claimed a “lynch mob” was trying to get him.
